Button



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OHN HATCH, OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON.

Specification forming part bf Letters Patent No.,3,915, dated February20, 1845; Ressued November 3, 1863, No. 1563.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, JOHN HATCH, of NorthAttleborough, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful improvement in the manufacture of what is termedPantaloon-Buttons, of which the following description and accompanyingdrawings constitute a full and exact specication.

For the sake of better illustrating the construction of my improvedbutton, as well as that of others hereinafter referred to, I haverepresented them in the drawings, on a much larger scale than that onwhich they are generally manufactured, and I have also given views ofbuttons as otherwise constructed and in common use.

Figure l, denotes a transverse central section of a butto-n composed oftwo plates (a, b) of metal, having a circular plate or piece (c) of woodbetween them, the eyelet or thread holes a? 0l, &c., being bored orotherwise made through the wood and plates of metal. Fig. 2 is a topview of such a button and Fig. 3, a bottom view of it. Fig. 4 is a crosssect-ion of another button, which is composed simply of a plate (e) ofmetal and a circular piece of wood (f), the eyelet or thread holes beingmade as inthe button exhibited in Figs. l, 2 and 3. Fig. 5, is a bottomView of the same. Fig. 6, is a cross section of a third kind of button,composed of two plates g h, and a piece z' of cloth, interposed betweenthem, there being a circular aperture (7c) cut through each `piece ofmetal at the center of it, by `which the cloth is exposed, as seen inFigs. 6 and` 7,

` the later being a top view of the button.

The button is secured to an article of clothing, by sewing through itand Vthe cloth (i).

My improved button is represented in Figs. 8 9, and IO-the former beinga cross section, the next a top view, and the latter a bottom view ofit.

The cost and modes of construction of the various kinds of buttonsheretofore adopted, and of which I have given drawings, have renderedthem very objectionable in certain respectsthe principal, against thoseexhibited in Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, being that the eyelets or threadpassages of such buttons by their peculiar construction, soon wear orcut out the thread by which the buttons are confined to a garment. The

button represented in Figs. 6 and 7, has proved a very good one,butowing to the nicety required in its manufacture, a very expensiveone-and liable to serious objection on this latter account.

`My improved button is composed simply oftwo pieces, or stamped circularplates of metal a, and b, Figs. 8, 9 and 10. Previous to their beingapplied and secured to each other, four or any other suitable number ofholes (c, c, &c.) are punched through each plate (o, b). in such manneras to leave a regular conical or tapering bur, projecting from eachorifice and from the plate, as seen in section in Fig. S. The burs ofone plateare placed in contact, respectively with those of the other,and so that the opening at the extremity of each bur, shall be placed indirect opposition and coincide with that of the bur (in contact) of theother plate. Each thread passage or hole through the button, will thusbe composed of two of the burs-and will be countersunk on each side ofthe button-as seen in the drawings. lThe twocircular plates are confinedin contact with each other, by the edge of the upper being turned overthat of the lower of the said plates, as will be well understood bybutton makers; and when the two plates are pressed together in order tobe confined to each other, the extremities of the two burs of each ofthe thread passages, are united or pressed together sufficiently to makea smooth Vpassage for the thread through the button. A button thus madewill wear a much longer time upon` clothing, than as generally made ofInetaliand wood, and sold in the market. i

I dc no-t claim, the making what is termed a pantaloon button in twopieces of metallic plate, held together by the edge of one being turnedover upon that of the other, nor do I claim the combination of twoplates, (so applied to each other) with a circular or other propershaped piece of wood or cloth or woven material interposed between them;neither do I claim the Vcombination of a plate of metal, and a circulardisk of wood together; the fo-rmerbeing confined to the latter, by itsedges being lapped over and presseddown upon those of the latter; but

That which I do claim, is-

My improvement in the modes usually adopted, for forming or making theeyelet holes or thread passages of butons, composed of two circularplates of metal, the one of said pieces being confined to the other asabove described; the said improvement consisting in punching holesthrough the plates, (so as to leave a bur projecting on one side of theplate from each hole), before they are applied and connected to eachother, and,

(in combination with) applying the said holes of one plate to those ofthe other, in such manner, that their burred projecting edges, may be indirect contact, and the countersunk portion of each of the holes of theplate, (there being the same number of holes in each plate) be opposedto that of the corresponding hole of the other plate;

thereby, formingeyelets or passages, countersunk on both sides of thebutton; by

which mode of constructing the above, Wear of the threads,-Which securethe button When sewed to cloth or other material, is to a very greatdegree obViated-the Whole being substantially as above described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my signature this seventeenthday of J anuary A. D. 1845.

JOHN HATCH.

Witnesses:

ELIsI-IA DUGGETT, ALBERT H. DRAPER.

[FIRST PRiNTED 1913.]

